Human Ecology Essays - Xander Karkruff

Human Ecology Essays - Xander Karkruff: "I'm not sure how much I agree with the theory of discontinuities, but I appreciate what it is trying to say: humans create barriers between things that do not need to be there. We are forever erecting walls between things we think need to be distinguished, and over time, these walls become so taken for granted that we don't even consider trying to see over the top. Most often, we are afraid of what's on the other side - be it beast, man or heathen - because we are afraid of what the 'strange” implies about our 'normal,” and we're afraid of seeing in ourselves the 'strange” we fear."